WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.620 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.620 --> 00:00:05.460 align:middle line:84% OK, I'm going to read a feminist poem called "History 00:00:05.460 --> 00:00:07.920 align:middle line:90% of Punctuation on the Face." 00:00:07.920 --> 00:00:11.250 align:middle line:84% Most of this poem I'm going to-- there's 00:00:11.250 --> 00:00:14.025 align:middle line:84% a couple of sections I'll go over. 00:00:14.025 --> 00:00:17.470 align:middle line:90% 00:00:17.470 --> 00:00:22.282 align:middle line:84% The punctuation in the poem is all out to the sides. 00:00:22.282 --> 00:00:27.140 align:middle line:90% So you'll get why. 00:00:27.140 --> 00:00:29.240 align:middle line:84% "History of Punctuation on the Face." 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:30.560 align:middle line:90% We love punctuation. 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:32.450 align:middle line:90% We love it on our faces 00:00:32.450 --> 00:00:33.770 align:middle line:90% Between our eyes, 00:00:33.770 --> 00:00:35.360 align:middle line:90% the commas on pages, 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:38.240 align:middle line:84% Slashes and virgules by the noses 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:40.670 align:middle line:84% the deeper ones called smile lines. 00:00:40.670 --> 00:00:43.220 align:middle line:84% The history of punctuation on our faces, 00:00:43.220 --> 00:00:46.400 align:middle line:84% the not-smooth-now, colonized landforms. 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:50.360 align:middle line:84% Try agelessskinrevolution.com, an internet pop-up 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:51.680 align:middle line:90% says between news. 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:54.080 align:middle line:84% Botox could fix your punctuation, 00:00:54.080 --> 00:00:57.890 align:middle line:84% And we don't want service worker bacteria injected in our skin. 00:00:57.890 --> 00:01:02.690 align:middle line:84% Some of our sisters said, naming wrinkles after the dryer years. 00:01:02.690 --> 00:01:05.000 align:middle line:84% The history of punctuation in the West. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:06.950 align:middle line:90% Men were reading silently. 00:01:06.950 --> 00:01:08.450 align:middle line:90% Women didn't read, of course. 00:01:08.450 --> 00:01:11.420 align:middle line:84% They were accompanied by the lyre and the strings. 00:01:11.420 --> 00:01:14.270 align:middle line:84% Construction workers do not whistle any more because 00:01:14.270 --> 00:01:16.400 align:middle line:90% of punctuation on my faces. 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.710 align:middle line:84% When I think of the invention of signs, 00:01:18.710 --> 00:01:20.330 align:middle line:90% when we think of interpunct, 00:01:20.330 --> 00:01:23.300 align:middle line:84% the small, plump dot made reading easier, 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:26.210 align:middle line:84% we welcome extra punctuation over time. 00:01:26.210 --> 00:01:28.520 align:middle line:90% Women sat up high in the arena, 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:31.100 align:middle line:84% no signs for when the gladiators killed, 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:34.210 align:middle line:84% and on the wrinkled earth, the animal. 00:01:34.210 --> 00:01:35.890 align:middle line:90% The interpunct kept pace, 00:01:35.890 --> 00:01:39.040 align:middle line:84% and thus, the scribes began their sense of interpacing. 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.560 align:middle line:84% At what level did experience begin? 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.930 align:middle line:84% Thus began the sense of interfacing. 00:01:43.930 --> 00:01:46.030 align:middle line:84% At what degree do Botox creatures 00:01:46.030 --> 00:01:49.120 align:middle line:84% stretch marks designed to make reading easier? 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.310 align:middle line:84% Weakness happens when the muscles fall. 00:01:51.310 --> 00:01:53.950 align:middle line:84% They invented the dipple and the period. 00:01:53.950 --> 00:01:56.740 align:middle line:84% At the Grand Canyon, we saw wrinkles up and down 00:01:56.740 --> 00:01:58.240 align:middle line:90% from the Precambrian. 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:00.460 align:middle line:84% What's so bad about granite wrinkles? 00:02:00.460 --> 00:02:03.920 align:middle line:84% What's so bad about punctuated women? 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:05.900 align:middle line:90% The parenthesis was added later. 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:08.270 align:middle line:84% Grief Botox may cause side effects. 00:02:08.270 --> 00:02:11.610 align:middle line:84% We didn't accept a corporate account of our skin. 00:02:11.610 --> 00:02:13.940 align:middle line:84% We do accept the long Precambrian, 00:02:13.940 --> 00:02:17.210 align:middle line:84% the feldspar in the West, the punctuation in the texts. 00:02:17.210 --> 00:02:20.240 align:middle line:84% Monks placed marks in surviving manuscripts 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.410 align:middle line:84% Mostly not coming from the author. 00:02:22.410 --> 00:02:25.220 align:middle line:84% Aurelius noted he had inserted marks. 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:27.290 align:middle line:84% Others appeared in the fourth century 00:02:27.290 --> 00:02:29.960 align:middle line:84% Not hopeless, only adding pauses, 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:33.020 align:middle line:90% Metamorphic commas on the faces. 00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:35.720 align:middle line:84% Marks had been inserted to show forces 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:37.760 align:middle line:84% The dimple with one dot of traces, 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:39.830 align:middle line:84% The asterisk appeared medievally, 00:02:39.830 --> 00:02:44.270 align:middle line:84% The punctus exclamatibus, and by then, human surprise 00:02:44.270 --> 00:02:45.560 align:middle line:90% had been invented. 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:47.300 align:middle line:90% Experience on our faces, 00:02:47.300 --> 00:02:50.660 align:middle line:84% And once when we were hiking down into the Precambrian, 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:53.930 align:middle line:84% Granitic structures, huge Vishnu complex, 00:02:53.930 --> 00:02:56.030 align:middle line:90% we had extra experience, 00:02:56.030 --> 00:02:58.940 align:middle line:84% A reader suddenly allowed to put the marks on, 00:02:58.940 --> 00:03:02.480 align:middle line:84% The printer made the right to put emotions in, 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:03.660 align:middle line:90% when he left her 00:03:03.660 --> 00:03:05.850 align:middle line:90% Punctuation deepened. 00:03:05.850 --> 00:03:08.820 align:middle line:84% Only some languages develop commas. 00:03:08.820 --> 00:03:11.340 align:middle line:84% Some faces, some agreements have, 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:14.430 align:middle line:84% And time makes other lines within the sense of sense. 00:03:14.430 --> 00:03:17.400 align:middle line:84% He started leaving her when she grew Precambrian 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:18.730 align:middle line:90% around the eyes. 00:03:18.730 --> 00:03:20.400 align:middle line:90% He was very going to leave her. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:21.540 align:middle line:90% Then he did. 00:03:21.540 --> 00:03:24.310 align:middle line:84% Another started naming wrinkles after time, 00:03:24.310 --> 00:03:28.480 align:middle line:84% She named them Valley of the M, heartbreak, budget, protest, 00:03:28.480 --> 00:03:28.980 align:middle line:90% app. 00:03:28.980 --> 00:03:31.170 align:middle line:84% When you see an older woman on the street, 00:03:31.170 --> 00:03:32.940 align:middle line:90% a reading of her beauty starts. 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:37.990 align:middle line:84% No stretching skin, smile lines built like the Precambrian. 00:03:37.990 --> 00:03:40.150 align:middle line:84% Older ground becomes so rich and rare. 00:03:40.150 --> 00:03:42.370 align:middle line:84% After Botox, she couldn't whistle well. 00:03:42.370 --> 00:03:47.110 align:middle line:84% Zoroasters, granite, igneous extrusions. 00:03:47.110 --> 00:03:50.470 align:middle line:84% The corporation needs our shameful self. 00:03:50.470 --> 00:03:52.780 align:middle line:84% In her divorce, the wrinkles deepened. 00:03:52.780 --> 00:03:55.450 align:middle line:84% Individual wrinkles named for lovers. 00:03:55.450 --> 00:03:58.120 align:middle line:84% Young and older riding added time to it 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:59.890 align:middle line:90% The commas of pure pleasure. 00:03:59.890 --> 00:04:02.560 align:middle line:84% After great pain, the Precambrian. 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.500 align:middle line:84% Some sense in the experiment grew, 00:04:05.500 --> 00:04:07.570 align:middle line:84% The pattern of pure pleasure grew. 00:04:07.570 --> 00:04:11.620 align:middle line:84% The measure of text is not predeath. 00:04:11.620 --> 00:04:14.500 align:middle line:84% What is your favorite form of punctuation? 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:17.500 align:middle line:84% My favorite form is the almost pause, 00:04:17.500 --> 00:04:20.320 align:middle line:84% To have some extra time around the dream. 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:23.200 align:middle line:84% Not dream of youth, poor Botox, creatures 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:24.760 align:middle line:90% chained into our friend. 00:04:24.760 --> 00:04:28.330 align:middle line:84% Oh, semicolon, why hatred of old women, not of earth? 00:04:28.330 --> 00:04:30.610 align:middle line:90% Why no hatred of old canyons? 00:04:30.610 --> 00:04:32.710 align:middle line:90% Why no hatred of the valley? 00:04:32.710 --> 00:04:35.650 align:middle line:84% Why hatred of the women doing nails and women 00:04:35.650 --> 00:04:39.190 align:middle line:84% eating, teaching, nursing babies, walking, talking, 00:04:39.190 --> 00:04:40.390 align:middle line:90% bent like commas? 00:04:40.390 --> 00:04:45.010 align:middle line:84% Why do the aging women apologize till they barely even talk? 00:04:45.010 --> 00:04:47.170 align:middle line:84% I asked the semicolon, and it said, 00:04:47.170 --> 00:04:48.790 align:middle line:90% don't be ashamed of your skin. 00:04:48.790 --> 00:04:49.940 align:middle line:90% I asked the comma. 00:04:49.940 --> 00:04:51.730 align:middle line:84% It said, don't be ashamed of your eyes. 00:04:51.730 --> 00:04:54.700 align:middle line:84% I asked the virgule, the parentheses, the dash, 00:04:54.700 --> 00:04:56.620 align:middle line:84% the tilde, the umlaut, the macron. 00:04:56.620 --> 00:04:59.410 align:middle line:84% They said, don't be ashamed, shame, shame. 00:04:59.410 --> 00:05:02.800 align:middle line:84% I asked the ellipsis and the period, the exclamation, 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.010 align:middle line:84% and the question mark, to read the human woman's face. 00:05:06.010 --> 00:05:08.560 align:middle line:84% And the sign said, take your time. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.080 align:middle line:84% The pauses bent and heard, as did the quartzes 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:15.320 align:middle line:84% and the cracked feldspar faces of the canyons. 00:05:15.320 --> 00:05:19.280 align:middle line:84% There are marks and runnels and rivulets, scratches of exile, 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:22.130 align:middle line:90% skins, age, capacities. 00:05:22.130 --> 00:05:26.690 align:middle line:84% Oh quartz, ah granite, basalt, lava, faces 00:05:26.690 --> 00:05:28.080 align:middle line:90% Stay with you. 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:29.390 align:middle line:90% They remember you. 00:05:29.390 --> 00:05:31.310 align:middle line:90% They make signs with laughter. 00:05:31.310 --> 00:05:34.040 align:middle line:90% All old women, we remember you. 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.290 align:middle line:84% Remember the wrinkles under cities. 00:05:36.290 --> 00:05:40.970 align:middle line:84% The faces ours, full of pain, dots and lines and whines. 00:05:40.970 --> 00:05:44.690 align:middle line:84% Faces loved in suffering and gladness over all the earth. 00:05:44.690 --> 00:05:46.538 align:middle line:90% 00:05:46.538 --> 00:05:49.454 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:05:49.454 --> 00:05:52.380 align:middle line:90% 00:05:52.380 --> 00:05:54.800 align:middle line:90% Thank you so much.